Engineer, Electrical

Lyondell Basell North America•Morris, IL

1d•$137,920 - $206,880•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is part of the Morris Site Reliability Group supporting plant operation and reliability improvement efforts. Working in a team environment, it carries responsibility for implementing reliability best practices, developing and optimizing preventive maintenance tasks, and supporting day to day maintenance activities. The position interacts with other technical groups on site (process engineering, maintenance, and capital project groups), corporate technical networks and peers, and vendors/suppliers as needed to resolve problems and improve plant reliability and performance.

Requirements

BS degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries is preferred.
Strong interpersonal leadership skills are critical due to the requirement for effective communication of complex issues across the organization as well as for mentoring and consensus building.
The successful candidate must exhibit an understanding of business drivers, management of change requirements, reliability processes, and maintenance workflow.
The individual must have or develop basic proficiency in the following areas with the ability to develop into a subject matter expert in particular areas:
Basic understanding of industry codes and standards (i.e. IEEE, ISA, NFPA, NEC)
Instrumentation and measurement technology
Low voltage power distribution and controls
Safety Instrumented System specification, design, and implementation
Analyzers and sample systems
PLC maintenance and programming

Responsibilities

Apply data analysis techniques to develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost, and regulatory compliance issues
Consult with peers at the site and across the company
Serve as a resource and conduit to share best practices and leverage operating improvement opportunities across the site and company
Provide technical support/expertise within your discipline in the design and installation stages of projects for new assets and modification of existing assets to minimize life cycle cost and maximize asset availability
Participate in the development of design and installation specifications and commissioning plans.
Participate in the development of criteria for and evaluation of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Develop acceptance tests and inspection criteria
Maintain awareness of emerging technology, assessing applicability to improve reliability and performance, or to reduce maintenance cost
Lead or participate in incident investigations and root cause analysis
Manage risk to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental health and safety, asset capability, quality, and production
Provide input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan that includes: Value-added preventive maintenance tasks, Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
Provide technical support to production, maintenance, project, and process engineering groups
Lead interdisciplinary reliability improvement teams to guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, controls and safety systems.
Implement Safety Instrumented Systems that meet availability requirements by translating Process Hazard Analysis requirements into technical design specifications and preventive/predictive maintenance plans.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package
Equitable and market-competitive base pay
Locally relevant incentives
Pay-for-performance culture
Workplace Flexibility (Global Remote Work Policy allows up to two full remote work days per week)
Comprehensive Health, Welfare, Life and Retirement Programs
6% LYB match on 401(k) contribution
5% LYB cash balance pension plan accrual
Comprehensive Well-being Benefits (physical, mental, financial, and social health)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% discount for eligible employees in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and US)
Educational Assistance Program
Bravo Rewards Program
Robust Medical and Life Insurance Packages
Professional Development opportunities
Competitive Vacation Policies
Global Adoption Policy
Matching Gifts Program